To save you the trouble of looking up the IRS site, I’ll give you a clue as to how complex the system really is by telling you that there are 2,023 forms/instructions that make the tax forms/instruction list. Someone must be benefiting from this.

Think of the money the U.S. could save by simplifying the system, reducing the size of the IRS, and eliminating the need for some taxpayers to have to pay someone to do their income tax returns for them.